Custom Selection and Custom Tool Podcast 244

The Custom Selection and Custom Tool/Attribute is a powerful way to speed up your Vectorworks. You can use it to create custom tools that you can reuse again and again. The best thing is that you do not need to know how to program Vectorworks. 

Creating a Site Plan in Vectorworks 2023

This movie is an update of an old movie, it shows how to create a boundary line, how to add the building to a site plan, how to create the site plan drawings, and how to calculate the site coverage (house /site ratio).

In this movie, I show you how to draw a quick building using Vectorworks walls, slab, foundations, roof, and roof framing. The techniques I use on this simple building can easily be used on a more complex building.

 Get more Vectorworks training here:  http://www.archoncad.com

AutoCAD tutorial

 I have been asked to teach AutoCAD to high school students, this is lesson 1

VECTORWORKS Q&A with Jonathan Pickup

 This is on of the early Vectorworks Q&A sessions hosted by Novedge (www.novedge.com). it covers a range of questions from attendees. For more details, see the information below.

Vectorworks 2021 - Connecting Slab Components and Wall Components - Podcast 234

 I have just posted a movie showing how to connect walls to slabs 

Youtube Movie - Difficulty Selecting Objects

 I have just posted a YouTube movie about the trouble selecting objects, especially when there is a site model object. 

Vectorworks 2021 Show Other Object While in Groups - Podcast 230

After the lighting video, someone asked how I made the information outside the group vanis, this movies will show you how. 

Vectorworks 2021 Move By Points Tool - Podcast 227

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I saw on a Facebook group that someone wanted to know haw to use the Move By Points tool, so I made this movie tho show how to use it. This is a very powerful tool that I use a lot. I use in 2D (plan) and I use it in 3D as well.  This movie will explain the modes and show you when to use each mode. 

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00:25 Move by Points tool introduction

01:32 Move mode

01:54 Duplicate mode

03:55 Distribute mode

04:15 Object Retention mode

04:45 Selection Retention mode

05:32. Reference Point Mode

05:56 using the floating datum to measure a distance

06:06 moving a window in a wall using the move by points tool

06:35 using the Reference point mode on any object 

07:38 using move by points in 3D

Vectorworks - Quick Roof Faces

I was helping someone the other day to make a complex roof quickly, using roof faces. This is how I do it. 

Vectorworks 2021 - Creating a Shadow Analysis

Scheduling Materials in Wall Styles with Vectorworks 2021

 I have just added a movie showing how to schedule materials in Wall Styles.

Vectorworks 2021 course available

 I have updated my Vectorworks Foundation course for Vectorworks 2021:

https://store.archoncad.com/courses/general/vectorworks-foundation-2021/

You Can Control Drawing Labels in Vectorworks 2021

 

Drawing Label Styles in Vectorworks 2021

In Vectorworks 2021, you now have control over your drawing labels. In previous versions, you could control a few limited options but you couldn't control everything. 2021 allows you to create drawing label styles. These styles mean that you can choose what information is on the label, what size the label is, what fonts you're using, even where the lines are and what line weights are. 

Out of the box, Vectorworks has some premade drawing label styles. I found that the easiest way to create my own drawing label style was to start with one of the standard Vectorworks ones and then edit it.

• Start by placing a selecting a standard Vectorworks drawing label. 

• Go to the Object Info palette.
• Click on the Style pop-up menu  
• Choose Edit Style...

This will open a dialog box so that you can choose what to do with the style.

• Click on the Edit Drawing Label Layout... button. 

This is a special editing area at one-to-one scale for you to edit your drawing label style. In this area you can change the line weights, fonts, colours, and positions of objects.


In this image, I have added extra text and moved the locations of the drawing number. I want this label to show the back-reference location of the detail. This would be the section or drawing that had the original detail  reference.


Once I have the text and lines in the correct location, I can edit the text label field. 

• Select the required text. 
• Go to the Object Info palette.
• Click on the Define Drawing Label Field...

This opens a dialog box for you to define the connections for the text. 

• Click on the Parameter Name pop-up. 

In this image, I have chosen the Drawing Title. There are several options to choose from. 

• Select the required parameter (the information you want). 
• Click on the Add to Definition button. 
• Click on the OK button

• When you have finished your editing, click on the Exit Drawing Label Layout button at the top-right go your screen. 

 

• Click on the OK button to return to your drawing.
• Create a series of your favourite drawing labels and store them in you library file.  

free webinar

 novedge and I are hosting a free Q& A Session for Vectorworks :

https://novedge.com/blogs/webinars/pickup-vectorworks-architect-q-and-a-with-jonathan-pickup-episode-6

bring your questions!

Lesson 2.2- Creating Drawings form a 3D Model - 2020 Foundation Course

Lesson 2.1- Creating a Simple 3D Model - 2020 Foundation Course

ArchiCAD tutorials

 I am teaching several students how to assemble architectural drawings in ArchiCAD. I have created a playlist on my web site:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjt2JD0muIE9HHczWPkcbAHkHDAX90Y38

Lesson 1.5 - Test Yourself - 2020 Foundation Course

Lesson 1.4 - Text and Dimensions - 2020 Foundation Course